Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.
David SheffThe hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.
David SheffAn alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
David SheffOnce and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. Itโs critical if weโre going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. Thereโs another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.
David SheffThrough Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs.
David Sheff